Re: evince needs some dbus and aborts

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I looked at core dump and see that it came via libdbus-glib-1.so.2
> > from my dbus-glib-0.76 package. That package and dbus-1.2.1nb1 were
> > both installed in June 2008. But my glib2 was upgraded to
> > glib2-2.18.3nb1 a few days ago. I assume that is the problem.
> >
> > So I used pkgsrc to install dbus-glib-0.80 (replaced existing and
> > didn't rebuild any other packages). And now evince works for me.
>
> Out of curiosity, if you fired up evince several times, did it crash
> every time? I'm getting intermittent crashes with glib2-2.18.4nb1
> newly installed.
It was every time (but that was probably only ten times noticed).
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